Action
Doug Bentin
Strangers on a train Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp meet cute in ‘The Tourist.’ May we see your vacation photos, please?
Sunday 26 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: frank
The Tourist
Action
Doug Bentin
Strangers on a train Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp meet cute in ‘The Tourist.’ May we see your vacation photos, please?
Frank it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
It’s alive! It’s alive! Or rather, it will be, beginning Thursday. That’s when Oklahoma City Theatre Company unwraps its production of Frankenstein at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker, where it runs through Oct. 27. OKCTC artistic director Rachel Irick promises a Frankenstein for “a new generation,” including a techno score. Tickets are $10-$20. Call 297-2264 or visit okctc.org.
Thursday-Sunday, ongoing
Michael Summers — More
Jazz
Louis Fowler
This honky cat is really something else! Need proof? Just take a listen to his swingin’ version of the Elton John classic. Deep bass grooves, jaunty piano, smooth trumpet and sexy, crystalline vocals: This is the version to which all others now must live up.
Suddenly
Shoot the president? Sinatra aims to do it his way.
Thriller
Rod Lott
From 1954, Suddenly is the lesser-known of Frank Sinatra’s two films centered on a presidential assassination. Cry “sacrilege” if you wish, but I actually prefer it to the later, more polished, highly revered The Manchurian Candidate. Yes, Suddenly is a B-noir treatment of the same theme, but the underdog proves ridiculously effective.
Grohl on
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl makes a music documentary, ‘Sound City.’
Dave Grohl’s not just a Foo Fighter. Now he’s a film director.
Sound City, his documentary on the historic L.A. recording studio of the same name, is set to screen locally once and once only: at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Harkins Bricktown Cinemas 16, 150 E. Reno. It’s scheduled for nowhere else in the state.
Fresh from its Jan. 18 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the film includes such music heavyweights as Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Barry Manilow, Pixies’ Frank Black, producer Rick Rubin, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, John Fogerty, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and many, many more.
For tickets, visit harkinstheatres.com. —Rod Lott
Hey! Read This:
• 5 WTF Facts About Rick Springfield
• Barry Manilow interview
• Pixies interview
The Bay
Terror tries to get ‘eek’-ological.
One in Three
Oklahoma City’s Nathan Mickle makes up a third of the new vocal group The American Three, dedicated to belting out standards.
Music
Louis Fowler
Press materials for The American Three tag the new vocal group as “fun and wholesome,” with a little Rat Pack thrown in “just for flavor!” It’s that extra flavor that Three member and lifelong Ol’ Blue Eyes fan Nathan Mickle believes fits his song stylings to a T.
Grand Duel
To catch a Cleef.
Western
Rod Lott
Lee Van Cleef enjoyed a secondary career in Italy cranking out spaghetti Westerns, with little regard to quality. However, 1972’s Grand Duel — aka The Big Showdown — is deserving of its Grand label. No wonder Quentin Tarantino borrowed its sweeping theme song by Luis Bacalov for Kill Bill; you'll recognize it in two notes.
